Tuesday, 6 October 2009
UNSW Press managing director Robin Derricourt has announced he will stand down from the position in February 2010. Derricourt, who has completed 13 years in the role, told WBN he...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A review of the biography The Making of Julia Gillard (Jacqueline Kent, Viking) in the Monthly has drawn criticism from Penguin publisher Ben Ball, reports the Australian. The Monthly review...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
A new venture in New Zealand aiming to digitise New Zealand books has so far attracted 300 books from 30 publishers, reports Scoop. New Zealand's Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL), Digital...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
New Zealand Book Month, which runs through October, has kicked off with a gala launch in Auckland, hosted by Buddle Findlay. ‘There's plenty to get excited about with loads of...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has backed the Australian Publishers Association in rejecting a proposed compromise position on parallel importation. ‘We certainly support the position the publishers have taken,'...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Auckland novelist Michele Powles has been named the 2010 Robert Burns Fellow. Powles, the director of New Zealand Book Month, which kicked off last week, is the author of Weathered...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
The 2010 ‘WorldCon' science-fiction, fantasy and horror convention, will be held in Melbourne in 2010.  'Aussiecon 4' will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 2 to...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
In rights news this week:   SalesFiction--Translation rights to The Book of Love (Phillipa Fioretti, Hachette) have been sold to Random House Germany. Text has sold North American rights to Hollywood...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
'The pet theory is that the enlightened, the sophisticated, the cosmopolitan, the cultured, the international, the universal attitude is to leave the Australian literary field wide open to world competition...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
iMinds launches ‘MindTracks'New Australian audio publisher iMinds has launched a collection of short nonfiction general knowledge ‘tracks' that can be purchased and downloaded through iTunes or the US audiobook website...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Wilson leaves Headline UK after only 5 monthsRiP Reinhardt Mohr of BertelsmannHow publishers encourage...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol keeps the numerous Stephanie Meyer titles at bay in the Bestsellers at number one this week, Irish writer Marian Keyes' book The Brightest Star in...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, 7-11 October4th IPEd National Editing Conference, Adelaide, 8-10 OctoberFrankfurt...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
This week was a great one for local authors, among them Emily Maguire. Her new novel Smoke in the Room did very well on MX's Most Mentioned chart. It follows...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Authors on tour from October to March 2010: October Emily Maguire, Picador (Smoke in the Room)Monica Mayhem, Random House (Absolute Mayhem)Don Watson, Random House (Bendable Learnings)Roland Perry, Hachette (The Australian...

Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Among the many worldwide booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:'90% of Macmillan titles are pirated', says US CEOPiracy isn't necessarily lost sales'Lost Symbol'...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Australia-based software developer DNAML has announced the launch of a new ebook website ebook.com. The website is ‘a global concept, which is accessible anywhere in the world' but includes books...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Red Hill Digital, the digital ‘sister company' of Australian ‘fee for service' publisher Red Hill Publishing, has launched an ebook distribution service. The first title to be distributed is Ken...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
'Ending parallel import restrictions won't be the end of the world for Australia's bookshops. But if they are kept in place, the internet will kill off the local bookshop more...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Melbourne-based Therapeutic Guidelines has won the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for ‘best ebook publisher', for the electronic product eTG complete. The award, which is open...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Fox title recommended in Oprah Book ClubTen Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury, Viking) has been recommended by Oprah in her Oprah's Book Club Kids' Reading...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
As expected, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol gets top place this week on both the Bestseller and Highest New Entries charts. The Guinness World Records 2010 comes second place on...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: National Young Writers' Festival, Newcastle, 1-5 OctoberTasmanian Poetry Festival, 2-4 OctoberConflux 6--speculative fiction convention, Canberra,...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Peter Temple's new novel Truth starts with a Templesque tease--Inspector Stephen Villani finds a woman dead in a bath. But the panic button was easily within reach ... the book...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
American historian Milton Meltzer has died, aged 94. His works include Up Close: John Steinbeck and Tough Times.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
In rights news this week: SalesNonfiction--Text has sold Czech rights to Julie Catt's Normal to Jota, which published Kate Holden's In My Skin and Matt Rubinstein's A Little Rain on Thursday. Random...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
American illustrator Bernie Fuchs has died, aged 76.